Ibn al-Rassam (literally Son of the Draftsman) was an Egyptian Muslim alchemist and tile maker and mosaic designer, who flourished during the Mamluk Bahri dynasty (1250–1382).
[1] Ibn Rassam is widely known to have invented the techniques through which he obtained copper from varieties of malachite.
[2] He was a colleague of the chemist, Abul Ashba ibn Tammam (d.1361).
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